First of all thanks to everyone who voted in our ballot to establish for the first time what the most influential left-of-centre European blogs are. We wanted to avoid a SEJ bias as far as possible and therefore notified all nominees and asked them to campaign for themselves. And here are the results:

Two significant moments in the British political blogosphere: Tom Harris?s declaration that he is retiring from writing a blog, and Eric Joyce?s attack on voters as ?liars? and then subsequent qualification/semi-withdrawal.

I try to promote quality blogs about European affairs by suggestions to the readers of my blogs and to my friends on Facebook. Mostly they are Euroblogs I follow and listed among the now 698 blogs aggregated by the multilingual Bloggingportal.eu.